Edit: Finished downloading. The "permission denied" error you see whilst booting FreeDOS will be remedied by the next NwDsk release. I have also sped-up execution speed so you will no longer see a significant delay between finding the *.INI file and launching to menu.

I'll endeavour to push the update out this week.

_________________"If you think things can't get any worse it's probably because you lack sufficient imagination."

(notice the quotes). If you're ever sending parameters to the .exe file, always ensure field 2 is given in quotes. To avoid confusion, it may be wise to invoke quotation marks on all items in field 2 to further remind users.

(notice the quotes). If you're ever sending parameters to the .exe file, always ensure field 2 is given in quotes.

Done!

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Always ensure the target binary is declared in field 2; RUNAPP.BAT needs this parameter to find the corresponding archive.

Done! I also change it for ata24, ata245 and chgdef. Also corrected the desc in UBCD.INI (should be AIDA16, not AIDA15).

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NwDsk can calculate the remaining variables (in NwDsk R1.33 FINAL you should be able to delete "MenuType" also).

I left the "version" value in because the folks who suggested working on a UBCD customizer app might want to use it to determine the UBCD version. They emailed me earlier about this, and I told them I will include a "version.txt" in the "ubcd" subdir, but since ubcd.ini is now available, I thought might as well use that.

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You might also consider tab-formatting UBCD.INI so to allow users to easily read/navigate the file.

I know this one will come up. Sorry to disappoint you, but I like it this way. I am I am weird, but I am wired to like things compact. You should see some of the C code I write!

Change /ubcd/boot/cputres to /ubcd/boot/cpustres.
Work around for people who don't want to remaster the iso but want to test it anyway:
Press [TAB] when you are at the menu items of the CPU submenu (CPUstress, CPUburn-in, CPUinfo, Mersenne prime test, StressCPU2 or Help) and delete the s in the commandline so it looks like cputres.

Delete /ubcd/boot/antivir/isolinux.cfg and /ubcd/boot/antivirus/welcome.msg:
You only can see that you can choose to boot from the hard drive (not very usefull or to boot antivir, so it is better to include the launch option straight in others.cfg

LABEL -MENU LABEL Parted Magic V3.0 (LiveUSB) - Press F1 for more informationTEXT HELP Same as above. Use this option if you are booting from a USB memory sticks instead of a CD.ENDTEXTCONFIG /pmagic/syslinux.cfg

LABEL -MENU LABEL UBCD FreeDOS (NwDsk V3.40, R1.32)TEXT HELP FreeDOS boot disk used to run many of the other DOS apps on the UBCD. Revised version of Eric Veermans' FreeDOS NwDsk 3.42. Addresses many bug fixes, performance enhancements and compatibility issues.ENDTEXTKERNEL memdiskAPPEND initrd=/ubcd/images/fdubcd.igz

You have to add reboot.c32 from the syslinux package to /syslinux and /isolinux.
The MENU SEPARATOR will display a blank line that gets skipped when navigating trough the menu. It makes it easier to separate the UBCD part of the local boot and reboot option.

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I left the "version" value in because the folks who suggested working on a UBCD customizer app might want to use it to determine the UBCD version. They emailed me earlier about this, and I told them I will include a "version.txt" in the "ubcd" subdir, but since ubcd.ini is now available, I thought might as well use that.

Just so we're clear, I'll have NwDsk configured to read only the following settings...

Code:

[Version] Signature = $Ubcd$ Version = <INSERT HERE>

Victor Chew wrote:

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You might also consider tab-formatting UBCD.INI so to allow users to easily read/navigate the file.

I know this one will come up. Sorry to disappoint you, but I like it this way. I am I am weird, but I am wired to like things compact. You should see some of the C code I write!

Each to their own. For the record, it looks a bloody mess. q-:

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Update the FreeDOS image

In the process of downloading...

I wouldn't dwell too much on this. R1.33 FINAL is shaping up quite nicely. I've further managed to speed up *.INI parsing by assigning the fetched values as parameters instead of environmental variables...

R1.32 (elegant, but slow as AIDS...)n iterations, where n=number of entries

-$ = randomly decides whether or not to format any available partition.-$$ = emails your IP address to the official "Hannah Montana Fanclub"

In fact, all it does is pass a parameter to the main UBCD launch menu. "-$" tells the application to pause (press any key to continue) before returning to the main menu. "-$$" simply tells it to not return to the menu and exit to the command prompt (useful if the application in question is command-line driven). "-" will immediately default back to our menu.

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Icecube wrote:

Also some comments inside UBCD.INI which explains what each column does, would be nice...can you describe what each column means?

Agreed. As you can see from NwDsk R1.32, I began typing out a README.TXT file attempting to explain all that crap (I got bored with it and haven't had much time of late to finish it entirely).

I should also post a tutorial for users which should help explain all the various nuances. In the meantime, I'll quickly attempt a wheelbarrow explanation of how the *.INI file works...

"Signature" is used as a search parameter by NwDsk in order to locate the file (the advantage being you can place or name the *.INI file to anywhere or anything you desire). This should NEVER be edited/removed.

"Version" is pretty self-explanatory.

Beneath the header is where we list ALL our dosapps which, in turn, are used to dynamically generate our batch files, help commands and WBAT interface.

"<PATH>" can be anything you like. In our case, it is "/ubcd/dosapps/".

Code:

;fjdt ;fjdt.exe ;- ;Fujitsu ATA Diagnostic Tool 7.00 (Fujitsu)

Field 2 donates the command to be run (by default, this should contain the target binary found within the corresponding dosapp archive/directory). This field also accepts parameters for the target binary in question (for example, "fjdt.exe /?").

This field is quite important since NwDsk uses this target binary to not only luanch the application, but to also discern the correct archive to unpack/directory to follow should an instance arise where duplicate archives/directories are discovered.

Field 3 I've explained.

Field 4 simply denotes the dosapp title.

_________________"If you think things can't get any worse it's probably because you lack sufficient imagination."

I'm still really new to all this but, wanted to say thanks for all the hard work. Just downloaded and installed UBCD V5.0b5 on a 1Gb flash drive. Works perfectly to boot a toshiba satellite l355-s7812 with the core 2 duo processor (t5550 1.83 GHz) Haven't tried t on the desktop (asus) yet.

Had a little trouble with the 4.11 version on the flash drive but, as this is the newest version it's better anyway.

Posted a link in "resources & links" for a site with lots of pendrive apps. that may be integrated or used to customize.

It would be nice if someone would test it. It doesn't require that you burn a new CD. If you already burned the UBCD50B5 iso to a CD you can test it by ust placing those files on your hard drive. See the link above for more information.

I am glad that it finally out of the door .

To all people who have an USB keyboard: Can you test the cpustress image?

deadlite couldn't use its wireless keyboard, I like to know if an USB keyboard works or not. If nobody helps, I probably can't fix it.

See the first post from me on this topic to know which programs to test and how you have to start them (wrong folder name in UBCD50beta5).

I downloaded it, looks like it works but it still has DBAN 1.0.7. I would love it if dban-beta.2007042900 would be added to the UBCD. Because now I need a CD with the DBAN beta to wipe disks and the UBCD for everything else. The problem is DBAN 1.0.7 does not support most recent computers, on my Asrock 939SLI32 mainboard it's insanely slow (2MB/s or so), on my MSI AMD 690G board no disks are detected at all. DBAN beta solves this, and according to the author it's "production quality, but it never got tagged.".

@ VictorCan you show the webpage for UBCD50 with all the applications that are included. Provide a link. Do you have listed the applications that are included in Parted Magic?

Will work on it and post the link when it is ready.

Have you worked on this already or not? Look also at the beef drape version of Parted Magic, it contains a lot more programs than Parted Magic 3.0.

I have convinced Patrick Verner (Parted Magic) to include an isolinux option (I did have to write it myself ) which makes it possible to use the same entries for booting from a cd or from usb so that we need only one entry for Parted Magic in main.cfg.

If you set the keymap command to set your keyboard layout for Parted Magic(Press TAB at the bootmenu of Parted Magic, press F2 to see the possibilities), test the Failsafe Settings entry and see if you have chosen the right keyboard layout.

If it works correctly, boot in one of the graphical modes and test with which test you have to complete the setxkbmap command (most of the time it will be something similar to the extension of the domain names of your country: e.g.: be for Belgium, fr for France, uk for the United Kingdom).

I forgot to mention -- I did eventually sit down to test this, and was unable to use the image with the bog-standard Acer wired USB keyboard that came free with this computer. So it's definitely a wider problem than just wireless. (Which SHOULD be basically indistinguishable from wired USB keyboards on an "input-device" level, so that makes sense.)

I was unable to find a set of kernel options that made it work, tho I admit I didn't try very hard.

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